denizaksulu wrote:Brittania wrote:halil wrote:THE FIRST CLUBS IN THE TURKISH CYPRIOT COMMUNITY
writer :Ahmet An
There are limited number of resources about the past history of the Turkish Cypriot community other than the old Turkish Cypriot newspapers.
FIRST NICOSIA TURKISH FOOTBALL CLUB
After the British came to Cyprus in 1878, football was started to be played in the schools and the first football team was formed in 1902 at the Idadi (Moslem Secondary School) by Mr.Thompson, a teacher of English language and the first T/C footbal club was established in 1910 under the name of “Lefkosa Turk Futbol Ocagi” (Nicosia Turkish Football Hearth). This first Turkish Cypriot football club had members of Turkish Cypriot secondary school students, the policemen and the civil servants with the support of the respected personalities like Ahmet Raik Bey and advocate Ahmet Djemal Efendi who were members of the “Hurriyet Kulubu”.
(This footbal club was closed in 1922 and the same football players formed the “Lefkosa Türk Spor Kulubu” (Nicosia Turkish Sport Club), which was one of the co-founders of the Cyprus Footbal Federation (KOP) in 1934 and the only T/C club which was represented in the First League of Cyprus. It merged later with Cetinkaya Turkish Sport Club in 1949 to establish today’s “Cetinkaya Turk Spor Birliği”.)
In the old says, the football clubs used to stage theatre-plays. For example the “Soz” newspaper of 3 February 1937 (No.1130) reports that the Nicosia Turkish Sport Club was preparing for a performance during the Kurban Bairam, the play “The Forgotten Man” under the directorship of advocate Fadil Korkut. The same football club staged the play “Venetian Merchant” in February 1938 in the Papadopullos Cinema.
The only Turkish Cypriot theatre hall in Nicosia which was built by Belig Pasha in 1920 was closed after a while, because it was not built according the official regulations. The Soz newspaper of 22 January 1938 (No.1119) urged Behiye Hanım, the daughter of Belig Pasha, to renovate this cinema which in fact she did in the same year and this Belig Pasha Cinema was used by the Turkish Cypriot for cultural and social meetings until 1953 when it was destroyed by a fire.
Ok so we're looking at around 1900's when the turks got to the island?
You could have asked or looked at GR's Avatar. But he is sadly departed
Officially 1571. Unofficially, as slaves/plunder brought to Cyprus by Cypriote and other Christian pirates prior to 1571. From incessant raids on the Turkish mainland. They needed to enrich their genetic pool, so to speak.
Thankyou kind lady. So when did the greeks get here?
sorry, its just the name Deniz and the ballerina as your avatar convinced me you were female.
